Contest behaviour of maize weevil larvae when competing within seeds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 281-289

  Guedes, Nelsa Maria P ^a,b   Guedes, Raul Narciso C ^a,b   Campbell, James F ^b   Throne, James E ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b GRAIN MARKETING AND PRODUCTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

competition strategy; Curculionidae; interaction; intraspecific competition; life history trait; maize weevil; resource monopolization; scramble competition; Sitophilus zeamais; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY MASS; FOOD LIMITATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAIZE; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTHROPODA; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; SITOPHILUS ZEAMAIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 74649086832     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.10.022     Document Type: Article

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